Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote:
Ivan Savcic wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is
almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of
allowing the user to choose to use non-free software within the
structure of it's packaging system. IMO that is more free than
preventing people from using the software they want.
I had exactly the same view on that. But RMS is obviously a purist,
he dreams to banish all closed source from this world. Like Hal
pointed out, RMS believes that there should be no freedom when it
comes to choosing freedom itself.
Ivan
RMS is more of a hypocrite than anything else. He morally objects to
distros/*BSD variants with non-free applications in their
repositories/ports systems, on the grounds that this implicitly
advocates the use of non-free software, whilst explicitly advocating
GPL-licensed software for use in conjunction with that ultimate
proprietary platform, MS Windows:
http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html
I think what RMS objects to is anything that was not his idea first.
Hal
Honi soit qui mal y pense!
The FSF's list curiously doesn't mention the GNU Foundation's support
for the Win32 port of emacs and gcc:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
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